Thai-lao Orchid - San Antonio

Fantastic food and service! We ordered the pad-phet chicken, drunk noodles with beef and tom-yum with shrimps. Everything was cooked and perfectly seasoned. I'd come back in a heartbeat!

Thai Lao has not only served great food every time, but has shown incredible service, the minute you walk in your greeted and attended! Definitely choosing Thai Lao every single time! If you haven?t, your definitely missing out.

Fresh vegetables, hot and delicious. Fast service, and great and friendly service. They have options for you spicy and non spicy. Love it, definitely going back to try other options! : P.d: ordered online thru Uber Eats and wasn't as good as eating there. :

I really liked their green curry. I asked for the good to be very hot, 5/5, and they actually made it hot. Most Thai places think I 'm not serious when asking for super hot and make it somewhat mild. I like it super spicy, and they delivered what I asked got. Kudos! My Thai friend also noted that the food tasted authentic. Another reason to go here.

If you took an upscale taqueria, swapped the bull fight and cojunto posters for Asian silk tapestries and banners, you would pretty much have this restaurant down. The far end of the restaurant towards the kitchen had the usual lighted two door refrigerator stocked with canned soft drinks and other potables. There was a bar along the left side as you entered, but besides that this place had a real unexpected Mom Pop feel. Lemon grass and garlic chicken with stir fried veggies caught my eye and was ordered. I used to get this chicken lemon grass at a small place on the corner of Datapoint and Wurzbach that is now a, surprise, Mexican food restaurant and it served an outstanding rendition of this dish as a lunch special. My less adventurous and non-Thai acclimated spouse attempted to get an egg noodle dish (there were only two, all the rest are rice noodle) with beef, but the translation was lost somewhere in the order process with the less than sociable wait help. Like the movie, Cool Hand Luke , what we had here was a failure to communicate . I cringed at the sight of my spouse 's entree delivery as I noticed a nest of hard crispy noodles on her plate. After a short little jousting session with the waitress, the crispy noodles were replaced with stir fried noodles, but did not come with any sauce as had been requested. And I was thinking that I had the wrong culture for a while as I requested nuoc mam from the waitress three different times without success. Was it my pronunciation or her auditory wax concentration? Anyway, I finally succeeded getting some fish sauce from the manager when he visited our table to insure our satisfaction. Ordered as medium spicy, my chicken dish was characterized by an overly generous amount of crispy carrot with scalloped edges, some fat half moon slices of squash, and an all too woody stemmed grass and just slightly lemony flavored chicken that did not contain much heat or garlic flavor (or chicken) to speak of. The white rice that accompanied the dish was, well, white rice. That 's why I wanted the nuoc mam. Equally bland, the dish my wife sampled necessitated a call for styro less than 1/4 of the way through. The take-out ought to make the neighborhood raccoons happy. The menu here is extensive with loads of curries, rice noodle dishes, etc. and they all sounded appetizing. I don 't want to say that our selected lunch entrees were totally unacceptable, but they definitely needed to add some zing to their quality, preparation and service. With lunch specials of $8.95 and up (sans drink) you would expect this Thai restaurant to be much more than Lao-sy. I must admit though, the egg drop soup was some of the best I have had.